Content is King!

On the web, content is king. With increasingly sophisticated expectations for Library websites, site management becomes increasingly expensive and inefficient. By utilizing these
open source tools - Drupal for Unix based servers or DotNetNuke for Windows based servers, you extend the social networking capabilities of your libraries, create an exceptional user experience and save money by utilizing open source, rather than expensive - multi- workstation design tool licenses.

Both content management tools offer e-commerce capabilities (sell your bookbags!), blog and wiki functionality, and many user contributed modules with calenders, scheduling, sophisticated user access controls, graphics, forums, and surveys.

There are few feature-rich Open Source content managers outside of DotNetNuke for Windows servers and the documentation for DotNetNuke is somewhat unweildy compared to Drupal. However, there are several multi-featured and module rich Open Source content managers in addition to Drupal available for Unix based servers worthy of review including:

Geeklog ~ Joomla ~ Mambo ~ Owl ~ PostNuke ~ Typo3 ~ Xoops ~ B2evolution - (blog software) ~ Wordpress - (blog software)

Market your library website!